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Suggestions for BibleWorks 10

I realize that many of these would be impractical due to copyright, but in a perfect world....
Just off the top of head, my suggestions for BibleWorks 10:

Versions:The New English Bible
The Revised English Bible
The Holy Bible: An Improved Edition (this is in public domain) http://archive.org/details/holybiblecontain00amer
Beck's Translation
Berkeley Version
New Berkeley Version
The ESV with Apocrypha (http://www.amazon.com/English-Standa.../dp/0195289102 )
Ronald Knox Translation
George Lamsa translation of the Peshitta
Moffat Translation
New Century Version
International Standard Version (http://www.isv.org)
St. Athanasius Academy Septuagint translation (Old Testament text in the Orthodox Study Bible)
New World Translation (probably off-limits due to copyright)
The Holy Bible: An American Translation (Smith & Goodspeed)
Christian Community Bible translation
The New Testament: A Simplified Version by Olaf Norlie
The New Testament by William Barclay
The New Testament by JB Phillips
Wuest's Expanded Translation
Translator's New Testament (British and Foreign Bible Society)
The New Testament in Modern English (The Centenary Translation) by Helen Montgomery (public domain)
The New Testament in the Language of the People by Charles B. Williams
The New Testament (translated by Richard Lattimore)
The New Testament: Recovery Version
The New Testament: A New Translation in Plain English (CK. Williams)
Weymouth's New Testament (public domain)
Ferrar Fenton translation (public domain)
Translation for Translators (Deibler)
Translator's translation (Deibler)

Greek Textual CriticismMetzger's Text of the the New Testament
Encountering the Manuscripts by Comfort
Scrivener's A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament (public domain)
A Textual Guide to the Greek New Testament-Omanson

Exegetical GuidesLinguistic and Exegetical Key-Rreinecker and Rogers/Rogers and Rogers
A Grammatical Analysis of the Greek New Testament-Zerwick and Grosvenor
Baylor Handbook series
Exegetical Summaries series from the Summer Institute of Linguistics

Hebrew & Aramaic LexicaJastrow's Dictionalry of the Targumim,
Jenni and Westermann's Theological Lexicon of the Old Testament
Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament (TDOT)
Dictionary of Old Testament of Theology and Exegesis
Girdlestone's Synonym's of the Old Testament

With absolutely no intent to minimize the other suggestions, many of which I'm not familiar with, I would pare down slightly Kevin's--impressive!--list and put the following as a priority:

Originally Posted by Kevin W. Woodruff

I realize that many of these would be impractical due to copyright, but in a perfect world....
Just off the top of head, my suggestions for BibleWorks 10:

Versions:

Moffat Translation
The New Testament by William Barclay
The New Testament by JB Phillips

Greek Texts:Selections from the Greek Papyri-Milligan (public domain)
Here and There among the Papyri (public domain)
Select Papyri (from the Loeb set)Greek GrammarsPrepostions and Theology -Murray Harris
Buttman's Grammar (public domain)
Dana & Mantey Grammar of the Greek New Testament
Moulton Grammar (full grammar, Moulton, Howard, turner) [NB: The first two are now public domain, I believe]Moule's Idiom Book of the Greek New Testament
A Beginning -Intermediate Grammarof Hellensitic Greek-FunkGreek Lexical Works
Patristic Greek Lexicon-Lampe
Concise Dictionary of New Testament Greek-Trenchard
Souter's Pocket Lexicon to the Greek New Testament (public domain)
Danker's Concise Lexicon of the Greek New Testament

Hebrew & Armaic LexicaJastrow's Dictionalry of the Targumim, [yes, yes, yes!]
Jenni and Westermann's Theological Lexicon of the Old Testament

One other thing I would really like to see is this: I don't have the full-blown Logos setup and don't often use Logos apart from a few specific things, but one feature I find very helpful is the ability to save several layouts and come back to them. It's sometimes a little tedious in BW if you're working on a passage for instance with the parallel windows, plus a floating window, etc., to have to set that up again each time. Being able to save setups would be a huge advantage and time saver. Having a dozen or so tabs, as is currently the case, is very helpful, but these are more limited, and I for one have tended to use them more for permanent setups (i.e., one tab for Josephus, one tab for the Apostolic Fathers, etc.).

I would also repeat the suggestion someone made of a "mini" version for iphones, and the like. Not necessarily one that would be sold separately from the full version--I think that's where the copyright issues that BW has mentioned on several occasions would come in--but a scaled-down version for BW's regular users (that would certainly bring overall sales up as well!).

Text file for full Lexham English Bible is available

The TXT file for the complete Lexham english bible (both Old and new Testaments) is available at http://www.lexhamenglishbible.com/download/LEB.txt, but I don't have enough technical savvy to turn it into a usable file with the Version Database Compiler. If anyone is interested in taking this on as a project, I would be grateful!

Again another thing in the department for small items:
- when navigating the Result window lists up and down, I would like the Browse window to auto-update. There is no need to be forced to press Return for that. Why would you scroll down the list if not to look up the text in the Browse window.

Again another thing in the department for small items:
- when navigating the Result window lists up and down, I would like the Browse window to auto-update. There is no need to be forced to press Return for that. Why would you scroll down the list if not to look up the text in the Browse window.

Maybe this is already possible in Options?

Morten

If I understand you, click in the results list and press the left and right arrows instead of the up and down arrows.